What retro things have you done today?

Picked this up yesterday afternoon on ebay for a tenner. Arrived this afternoon, the seller must have dropped it off as I later saw he was local! ARK2000 PCI graphics card, great for dos and really quite fast.

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I also went about setting up the Yamaha Waveforce 192 card in the P3 machine today. After initially installing the card and running the dos setup program, it allowed me to set Address , IRQ and DMA to standard 220 5 1 but when running Doom2 it would hang at loading due to protected mode. In the bios i had to assign the PCI Slot a IRQ (#11) then i assigned IRQ #5 to Legacy and DMA #1 also, went back into the SETUPDS util, set the IRQ mode to S-IRQ and saved. Loaded up Doom2 too and it loaded fine. All sound effects working and the OPL3 core was providing the music. Being a PCI card the output should be really clean with no noise.

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Also managed to pick up another sound card (Well a midi card) i've been on the look out for a while now, A Turtle Beach Maui!
 
With no schematic to guide me I thought I'd give my DEC 486 board one more go over before I assign it to my "scrap" pile. I've stumbled across a couple of tantalum capacitors that appear to be shorted to ground on the +ve pin. I'm going to give it a re-cap just as soon as the replacements arrive and see what's what.
 
Honestly, just buy a mini air compressor (not a tyre pump type, but a modelling airbrush type one), and a gun. Regardless of how cheaply you end up finding the cans, they are still a false economy long-term.
 
Here's the SK22G2 V2 shuttle as it stands (after a clean of course, and some strategic re-bending of the chassis in places). Currently got it's temporary Sempron 3200+, 512MB PC2-4200 and AMD FirePro V4900 in it whilst still waiting for my Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 9800GT 512MB and 4GB of DDR2 PC2-6400 to arrive.

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In Sun Ultra 40 news, I finally got an OS onto it. Server 2008 with the Desktop Experience pack (so basically Vista). XP although mentioned in the manual and referenced in the driver pack doesn't seem to work at all, won't even load setup. I'd ideally have used Vista Ultimate, but for the life of me I can't find my install media, but can find my Server 2008 media, go figure, oh well, it's the same OS anyway.
 
randal said:
Random one, but seeing as members of this thread are likely to use it as much as anyone...

Cans of compressed air? Anyone got a good source that isn't Amazon? I begrudge paying 20 quid for 4 cans of the stuff.
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I use a camera air squeezey ball thing and a camera brush to get rid of my dust everywhere, never used a can of air. Other than that an alarming number of computer items end up in the bath, to my partner's disgust....
 
paradigm said:
Here's the SK22G2 V2 shuttle as it stands (after a clean of course, and some strategic re-bending of the chassis in places). Currently got it's temporary Sempron 3200+, 512MB PC2-4200 and AMD FirePro V4900 in it whilst still waiting for my Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 9800GT 512MB and 4GB of DDR2 PC2-6400 to arrive.
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Does your board not support Athlon II CPUs? Not that I had much luck with mine...

My first "own" PC had an Athlon 64 x2 5200+ with an 8600GT. It was fairly terrible with glued in components from now defunct (I think?) Eclipse Computers. I don't really have much nostalgia for it. Then I upgraded to a 9800GTX+ for surprisingly cheap (remember when new graphics card were significantly faster than the previous gen? That flagship GPU was identical to the subsequent mid range GTX250!) but that burnt out, probably due to the crappy Eclipse power supply, so I bought a FX5950 on eBay for like £15 (heh) not realizing it was AGP and I was running PCI-E. I'm glad I am not that much of a moron any more.
 
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This is the "CPU Support List" for the Shuttle:

Athlon 64 AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 3200+ 90nm 62W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 3500+ 90nm 62W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 3800+ 90nm 62W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 3600+ 65nm 65W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 3800+ 90nm 89W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 4000+ 90nm 89W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 4000+ 65nm 65W SK22S20S
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 4200+ 90nm 89W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 4400+ 65nm 65W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 4400+ 90nm 89W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 4600+ 90nm 89W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 4800+ 65nm 65W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 4800+ 90nm 89W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 5000+ 65nm 65W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 5000+ 90nm 65W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 5200+ 65nm 65W SK22S20T
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 5200+ 90nm 89W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 5400+ 90nm 89W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 6000+ 90nm 89W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 6000+ 90nm 125W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 BE2300 45W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 BE2350 45W SK22S20R
Athlon 64 X2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 Socket AM2 BE2400 45W SK22S20R
Sempron AMD Sempron Socket AM2 3400+ 90nm 62W SK22S20R
Sempron AMD Sempron Socket AM2 3600+ 90nm 62W SK22S20R

Granted, this list doesn't even include the Sempron it's currently running, however there is nothing newer than A64 X2 in the list, at least Sempron is, even if the SKU isn't.
 
At lunch I tried out my CT4830 SBL incase for some reason it was less garbage than my later SB0100 in DOS. Sadly it is equally as garbage.

I then tried out my CT4810 SB PCI 128 Vibra card which is hilariously bad I think I'll upload some sound clips!
 
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